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This page contains publications written by members of the UT Austin Villa 3D simulation team.
UT Austin Villa: RoboCup 2019 3D Simulation League Competition and Technical Challenge Champions.
Patrick MacAlpine, Faraz Torabi, Brahma Pavse, Peter Stone.
In RoboCup 2019: Robot World Cup XXIII, Lecture Notes in Artificial Intelligence, Springer, 2019.

UT Austin Villa: RoboCup 2018 3D Simulation League Champions.
Patrick MacAlpine, Faraz Torabi, Brahma Pavse, John Sigmon, Peter Stone.
In RoboCup 2018: Robot Soccer World Cup XXII, Lecture Notes in Artificial Intelligence, Springer, 2019.

UT Austin Villa: RoboCup 2017 3D Simulation League Competition and Technical Challenges Champions.
Patrick MacAlpine and Peter Stone.
In RoboCup 2017: Robot Soccer World Cup XXI, Lecture Notes in Artificial Intelligence, Springer, 2018.

Overlapping Layered Learning.
Patrick MacAlpine and Peter Stone.
Artificial Intelligence (AIJ), 254:21-43, Elsevier, January 2018.

Multilayered Skill Learning and Movement Coordination for Autonomous Robotic Agents.
Patrick MacAlpine.
Ph.D. Thesis, The University of Texas at Austin, Austin, Texas, USA, August 2017.

Evaluating Ad Hoc Teamwork Performance in Drop-In Player Challenges.
Patrick MacAlpine and Peter Stone.
In Autonomous Agents and Multiagent Systems, AAMAS 2017 Workshops, Best Papers, Lecture Notes in Artificial Intelligence, pp. 168–186, Springer International Publishing, 2017.

UT Austin Villa: RoboCup 2016 3D Simulation League Competition and Technical Challenges Champions.
Patrick MacAlpine and Peter Stone.
In RoboCup 2016: Robot Soccer World Cup XX, Lecture Notes in Artificial Intelligence, Springer, 2016.

Prioritized Role Assignment for Marking.
Patrick MacAlpine and Peter Stone.
In Proceedings of the RoboCup International Symposium (RoboCup 2016) in Leipzig, Germany, July 2016.

UT Austin Villa RoboCup 3D Simulation Base Code Release.
Patrick MacAlpine and Peter Stone.
In Proceedings of the RoboCup International Symposium (RoboCup 2016) in Leipzig, Germany, July 2016.

UT Austin Villa: RoboCup 2015 3D Simulation League Competition and Technical Challenges Champions.
Patrick MacAlpine, Josiah Hanna, Jason Liang, and Peter Stone.
In RoboCup-2015: Robot Soccer World Cup XIX, Lecture Notes in Artificial Intelligence, Springer Verlag, Berlin, 2016.

UT Austin Villa: RoboCup 2014 3D Simulation League Competition and Technical Challenge Champions.
Patrick MacAlpine, Mike Depinet, Jason Liang, and Peter Stone.
In RoboCup-2014: Robot Soccer World Cup XVIII, Lecture Notes in Artificial Intelligence, Springer Verlag, Berlin, 2015.

UT Austin Villa 2014: RoboCup 3D Simulation League Champion via Overlapping Layered Learning.
Patrick MacAlpine, Mike Depinet, and Peter Stone.
In the Proceedings of the Twenty-Ninth AAAI Conference on Artificial Intelligence (AAAI-15) in Austin, Texas, USA, January 2015.

SCRAM: Scalable Collision-avoiding Role Assignment with Minimal-makespan for Formational Positioning.
Patrick MacAlpine, Eric Price, and Peter Stone.
In the Proceedings of the Twenty-Ninth AAAI Conference on Artificial Intelligence (AAAI-15) in Austin, Texas, USA, January 2015.

Keyframe Sampling, Optimization, and Behavior Integration: Towards Long-Distance Kicking in the RoboCup 3D Simulation League.
Mike Depinet, Patrick MacAlpine, and Peter Stone.
In Proceedings of the RoboCup International Symposium (RoboCup 2014) in Joao Pessoa, Brazil, July 2014.

The RoboCup 2013 Drop-In Player Challenges: Experiments in Ad Hoc Teamwork.
Patrick MacAlpine, Katie Genter, Samuel Barrett, and Peter Stone.
In Proceedings of the IEEE/RSJ International Conference on Intelligent Robots and Systems (IROS) in Chicago, Illinois, USA, September 2014.

UT Austin Villa: RoboCup 2012 3D Simulation League Champion.
Patrick MacAlpine, Nick Collins, Adrian Lopez-Mobilia, and Peter Stone.
In RoboCup-2012: Robot Soccer World Cup XVI, Lecture Notes in Artificial Intelligence, Springer Verlag, Berlin, 2013.

Inverse Kinematics Kicking in the Humanoid RoboCup Simulation League.
Adrian Lopez-Mobilia.
Report# HR-12-08 (honors theses), The University of Texas at Austin, Department of Computer Science. August 2012.

Design and Optimization of an Omnidirectional Humanoid Walk: A Winning Approach at the RoboCup 2011 3D Simulation Competition.
Patrick MacAlpine, Samuel Barrett, Daniel Urieli, Victor Vu, Peter Stone
In the Proceedings of the Twenty-Sixth AAAI Conference on Artificial Intelligence (AAAI-12) in Toronto, Ontario, Canada, July 2012.

Positioning to Win: A Dynamic Role Assignment and Formation Positioning System.
Patrick MacAlpine, Francisco Barrera, and Peter Stone.
In Proceedings of the RoboCup International Symposium (RoboCup 2012) in Mexico City, Mexico, June 2012.

UT Austin Villa 2011: A Champion Agent in the RoboCup 3D Soccer Simulation Competition.
Patrick MacAlpine, Daniel Urieli, Samuel Barrett, Shivaram Kalyanakrishnan, Francisco Barrera, Adrian Lopez-Mobilia, Nicolae Stiurca, Victor Vu, Peter Stone
In the Proc. of 11th Int. Conf. on Autonomous Agents and Multiagent Systems (AAMAS 2012) in Valencia, Spain, June 2012.

Using Dynamic Rewards to Learn a Fully Holonomic Bipedal Walk.
Patrick MacAlpine and Peter Stone.
In the AAMAS Adaptive Learning Agents (ALA) Workshop in Valencia, Spain, June 2012.

Wright Eagle and UT Austin Villa: RoboCup 2011 Simulation League Champions.
Aijun Bai, Xiaoping Chen, Patrick MacAlpine, Daniel Urieli, Samuel Barrett, and Peter Stone.
In RoboCup-2011: Robot Soccer World Cup XV, Lecture Notes in Artificial Intelligence, Springer Verlag, Berlin, 2012.

UT Austin Villa 2011 3D Simulation Team Report.
Patrick MacAlpine, Daniel Urieli, Samuel Barrett, Shivaram Kalyanakrishnan, Francisco Barrera, Adrian Lopez-Mobilia, Nicolae Stiurca, Victor Vu, Peter Stone
Technical Report AI11-10, The University of Texas at Austin, Department of Computer Science, AI Laboratory, December 2011.

On Optimizing Interdependent Skills: A Case Study in Simulated 3D Humanoid Robot Soccer.
Daniel Urieli, Patrick MacAlpine, Shivaram Kalyanakrishnan, Yinon Bentor, Peter Stone
In the Proc. of 10th Int. Conf. on Autonomous Agents and Multiagent Systems (AAMAS 2011) in Taipei, Taiwan, May 2011.

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